Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).  She is also the co-founding director of WAR-Net. In 2016, she gave the Remembrance Day address in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge; she has also given lectures at the National Army Museum and the National Memorial Arboretum.